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A city man accused of helping a murder suspect flee the country to avoid prosecution faces a two-week trial at Court of Queen’s Bench next spring. Justice Earl Wilson set the trial on Friday for Mohammed Parwaz Mali, 35, on a charge of accessory to murder to begin May 20.

Fifty years after a young Che Guevara crossed South America on the back of a motorcycle nicknamed La Poderosa (The Mighty One), a Canadian decided to traverse Africa on a Chinese-made scooter nicknamed Anne Murray. The Alberta-born Brendan Van Son, 29, is a travel enthusiast, photographer and social media entrepreneur who provides travel advice, hostel booking information as well as his own humour-laced adventure stories on his website brendansadventures.com. He even gave up a job in Canada to pursue his dream of full-time travel over the last four years.

First-degree murder and attempted murder charges have been withdrawn against a Calgary man in connection with a shooting outside a southwest nightclub nearly four years ago. Prosecutor Janice Rea told provincial court Judge Catherine Skene on Wednesday of the decision to drop the charges against Mohammed Parwaz Mali, who was arrested last September in Toronto in connection with the fatal incident in 2009.